Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@NintendoByNature Each to their own but the winner/loser thing about E3 makes me dislike it, rubbish trailers with no gameplay get's declared the winner (which even Ninty are guilty of this) whilst other games get left in the shadows. If the purpose of E3 is to highlight games coming soon to create excitement for then then it's fails unless AAA blockbuster type stuff that doesn't really need that exposure if the first place.

@Grumblevolcano i expect Nintendo E3 2021 presentation to be focused in the Legend of Zelda 35th anniversary and Pokémon 25th anniversary.

@jump I can get behind some of that( the winner/loser thing). It doesn't bother me, but its a bit tailored to that person's thoughts and feelings. I'll say the trailers with no gameplay is quite annoying, but everything else is just pure fun for me. Not knowing what square, capcom, nintendo, platinum etc has In store is fun speculation.

Even trailers with no gameplay excite me.

I get the whole "I want to see what the game actually looks like when playing" and largely agree. But sometimes just knowing a game exists is enough to make me scream like a giddy schoolgirl.

In 2017, when Nintendo announced Metroid Prime 4, I jumped out of my chair at work and started running laps around the lab, screaming, "they did it! They actually did it!".

My 65 year old coworker at the time was not impressed. But I didn't care. Moments like that are rare. The only other time I can remember doing that are for DKC Tropical Freeze when it was announced in 2013, and Monster Hunter Rise when it was announced last fall.

That's actually an example that proves my point ;p

They can't keep this game in stock!

First few days it was a 1 week delay. Then it was a 1-3 week delay. Now? It's a 1-4 week delay.

They can't seem to make them fast enough to keep up.

@DarthNocturnal in fairness they never actually said they were gonna release MP4, just it’s in development ;p

@JaxonH Dang. My copies come in but I still haven't gotten to even starting it yet. I just want to finish P5Strikers first but so little time.

@link3710
P5S is a great game. But I was bouncing between it, Bravely Default 2 and Super Mario 3D World when Monster Hunter Rise released. Had to put all 3 on the back burner.

Personal hype aside, I've always found it's best to play MH games at launch with everyone else. Sharing in the excitement, being able to discuss it with everyone as you play, and eventually, when you get done with village Quests and want to play the Hub Quests, having plenty of people in the MH thread to hop online with, is something that's really worth experiencing.

I KNEW IT, I KNEW THEY WERE GONNA DO PACMAN NEXT!

why don't i write down nearly any of my correct predictions ever? ;___;

Here before the official Pac-Man article goes live!

I find it funny how Stadia paid for a Pac-Man multiplayer title that capped at 64 players. Power of the cloud only possible in Stadia.

And here's Nintendo of all people doing 99.

@Haruki_NLI Stadia is a disappointment. If Octopath Traveler is one of the best games they can offer on their 4K60 streaming service then it's really lost.

@TheJGG I think it’s the modern poster child for how technology isn’t the only (or most important) factor driving the games industry.

In theory the technology is incredible and the potential to expand into very light “dumb terminals” (i.e you can play an actual demo of the actual full spec game on a device like Chromecast never intended for gaming) is a compelling and brave vision of the future...

...but it’s not what people want today and it illustrates the importance of having a broader and more cohesive marketing ecosystem (& appropriate games to support it obviously). Without that you’ve not got a competitor.

I think Stadia will hang around but mutate into a delivery mechanism for AAA games onto Android phones and tablets.

@StuTwo I agree, the technology is cool and it's real but it's not ready for public use yet. In ten to fifteen years this may very well be the norm, or storage drives for PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo consoles become so cheap that physical and digital media still have large relevance. Solid state drives have dramatically decreased in price over the last five years alone, we wouldn't have imagined we'd have a 825GB solid state PS5 drive.

@TheJGG I think there’s room for both approaches to be honest.

Technology has consistently made the “dumb terminal” obsolete before it ever dominates. If a PS4/PS5 can be made small enough and cheap enough fast enough (as eventually a console will..) then Stadia as a “console” is a non starter.

But the concept is undeniably still a good one (which is why it keeps coming back in computing more generally). I think it’s a particularly good idea for the idea of testing games and for dipping into games/short cinematic games and such. Eventually I expect all of the major platform holders to have something that does the same kind of things as Stadia (even if the main platform remains more traditional).

@StuTwo I agree with pretty much all of this.

The other platforms are so strong that Google weren't really in the best position to "compete" with a product such as Stadia. Investing not only in a new technology but a new player in such a crowded industry is risky business, and I think Sony and Microsoft are in much better positions to implement cloud gaming (the latter especially - and we're seeing them push forward with XCloud). At least with these platforms, if cloud gaming doesn't take off you have traditional consoles to fall back on.

@JaxonH WOW i was not expecting that Monster Hunter Rise Photo Mode is so good.

@Giancarlothomaz
It's killer.

The real endgame in Rise isn't hunting monsters, or making all the armor sets and weapons, or crafting the perfect talisman...

No.

The real endgame in Rise, is pictures. 🙂

I would genuinely be more interested in Monster Hunter if they just marketed it as a photography game.